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Dec. 5, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Many children must travel to see specialist
United Press International
About half of U.S. children live within 10 miles of most pediatric specialists, but almost one in three must travel 40 miles or more to get subspecialty care. "The results suggest that the supply of pediatric subspecialists is inadequate in some locales, and the number of subspecialists is not distributed equitably," said Dr. Michelle Mayer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Public Health.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/pediatrics.htmNational Coverage
Lawmakers' regional slams draw rebukes
USA Today
The regional insult, a staple of trash-talking sports fans but rarely used these days by national politicians, is making a comeback. ...Rangel, who has apologized, was simply indulging in an age-old tradition when he insulted Mississippi, which has a long history of poverty, racial inequity and illiteracy, says William Ferris, a Mississippian and now senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A Soda Maker, Touting Health,Moves to Sugar
The Wall Street Journal
In their quest to reach health-conscious consumers, some beverage companies are turning to a surprising ingredient: sugar. ...Switching to sugar from HFCS "is going to have at best a trivial effect" on health, says Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health in Chapel Hill and an author of a 2004 paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that proposed the link between obesity and HFCS.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sept04/popkin091604.htmlEthics and Patents
Inside Higher Ed
Yale University is attempting to make a potential anti-HIV drug available in developing nations, but the institution is still finding itself questioned for not doing enough. ...W. Mark Crowell, associate vice chancellor for economic development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former president of the Association of University Technology Managers, said that universities are trying to find new ways of licensing their drugs to companies.
Updates on Billion-Dollar Campaigns at 28 Universities
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The 28 American universities that are seeking to raise at least $1-billion collected a total of $527.2-million in gifts and pledges during the last month for which they had data available. ...The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $1.9-billion as of October 31 (increase of $40-million in the last month); the goal is $2-billion by 2007.
Regional Coverage
A Western education, Mideast style
The Chicago Sun-Times
For decades, top students in this muggy Persian Gulf city traveled a long way to go to college, usually in the United States or Britain. After the Sept. 11 attacks, some felt less welcome. ...The University of North Carolina rejected an offer in 2002 to open a business school. The school sought a $35 million gift, while Qatar offered only $10 million, according to the Raleigh News and Observer.
Future is now for next journalism dean
The Gainesville Sun (Fla.)
It's been three years since Columbia University President Lee Bollinger called for a curriculum shake-up at the New York university's storied School of Journalism, but the debate he started rages on. ...It also may not be a terrific idea to be so bent on integrating new media that you lose touch with the "traditional strengths" of your journalism program, according to Jean Folkerts, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Stress Binge
WRCB-TV (NBC, Chattanooga)
Is the anxiety over holiday shopping, gift deadlines and family sending you running to the fridge? ..."Stress eating is a huge issue," said Doctor Cynthia Bulik a psychologist at the University of North Carolina.
State and Local Coverage
Brown chosen to lead program
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Tony Brown has been chosen to lead the Robertson Scholars Program. The Robertson Scholars Program, created in 2000, is a merit scholarship program that each year brings 18 new scholars each to UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/tonybrown120406.htmNew leader named for joint UNC-Duke program
The Triangle Business Journal
Talk about a daunting job description. Tony Brown's new gig requires him to form cohesion and collaboration between students on opposite sides of one of the nation's greatest collegiate rivalries. Brown, a professor of public policy at Duke University, has been named the new leader of the Robertson Scholars Program, a merit scholarship program that each year brings 18 new scholars to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an equal number to Duke University.
Soaring pay for coaches stirs criticism
The Greensboro News & Record
The search for N.C. State’s next football coach, a week old today, has been shrouded in secrecy. ..."We want UNC to be one of the premier public universities in the country," (James) Moeser said. "To do that, you have to hire the best people. Sometimes that’s in the journalism department and sometimes that’s in the football department."
Chancellor seeks to set record straight (Letter to the editor)
The Chapel Hill News
Regarding the contract terms announced last week for newly hired football coach Butch Davis, let me set the record straight about the university's priorities, which remain first and foremost focused on academic excellence. ...James Moeser, Chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill
Kenan plans get OK
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Following on the heels of a $1.86 million annual contract for new coach Butch Davis, the North Carolina football program won approval of a $75 million expansion at Kenan Stadium.
Edwards does 'Hardball'
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards will be featured on a segment of MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" that will be broadcast from the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday.
Note: The Hardball College Tour will, in fact, be at Carolina’s Memorial Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 12, not Dec. 11 as reported in today’s News & Observer.Supporters say critics exaggerate threats to nature
The Asheville Citizen-Times
There is no doubt that a North Shore road would impact the environment in one of the eastern United States’ largest wild areas. ...Jason Fridley, a plant ecologist who did field work in the area while earning his doctorate from UNC-Chapel Hill, said the road issue is “not (as) much of a scientific question as it is an aesthetic one.
Essay Advice: Take plenty of time; show your personality
The Winston-Salem Journal
Many high-school seniors are working hard to complete their college applications before the Dec. 15 or Jan. 1 deadlines. ...They are: Susan Coon, the senior assistant director for undergraduate admissions at Duke University; Dawn Calhoun, the associate director of undergraduate admissions at Wake Forest University; Damon E. Toone, the senior assistant director of undergraduate admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Anna Meadows Davis, the senior assistant dean of admission for Davidson College.
Cost of textbooks increasing
The New Bern Sun Journal
The cost of textbooks is increasingly becoming a financial burden for students attending college. ...Jones said that UNC-Chapel Hill bookstore will pay students 50 percent of the original cost and resell it at 75 percent of the original cost.
Land fight continues for church
Rocky Mount Telegram
The plan to replace its Sunday school with a high school has a Rocky Mount church mired in an uphill battle with the Nash-Rocky Mount school board. ...But the court system is unlikely to take the church's side, said Charles A. Szypszak, an expert on eminent domain at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Institute of Government, because state law allows school boards to take land for building a school.
Tindall, advocated black equality
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Southern historian Dr. George Brown Tindall, who is remembered as an early advocate of equality for black Americans, died Saturday in Chapel Hill. He was 85. On the UNC-Chapel Hill history faculty from 1958 until he retired in 1990, Tindall pioneered the discussion of Southern myths, which he said white Southerners developed after the Civil War to explain how what they saw as a just and noble cause could have been lost.
Related link: http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-796002.cfm
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/tindall120406.htmIssues and Trends
NC, biotech developer, sign deal
The Charlotte Observer
The UNC System and developers of the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis signed an agreement today outlining the nature of their relationship at the biotech hub.
Pope funds stir discord at NCSU
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A debate that became heated at UNC-Chapel Hill is now under way at N.C. State University -- whether to accept new donations from the John William Pope Foundation of Raleigh.
Related link: http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=1684Council moves ahead on Lot 5
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Town Council agreed Monday to keep moving forward with the Lot 5 project in downtown, but not without sharp dissent from one council member who said the deal had "gone sour."
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